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" Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. "

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" I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. "

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" We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. "

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" What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! "

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" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. "

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" Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. "

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" A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. "

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" Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. "

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" Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. "

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" To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. "

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" The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. "

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" Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. "

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" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "

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" I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. "

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" Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. "

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" Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. "

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